Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (27 May 1911-13 January 1978) was Vice President of the United States from 20 January 1965 to 20 January 1969 under President Lyndon B. Johnson, succeeding Johnson and preceding Spiro Agnew; Humphrey also served as Senator from Minnesota (D) from 3 January 1949 to 29 December 1964, succeeding Joseph H. Ball and preceding Walter Mondale, and again from 3 January 1971 to 13 January 1978, succeeding Eugene McCarthy and preceding Muriel Humphrey.

Biography
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was born in Wallace, South Dakota on 27 May 1911, and he attended the University of Minnesota before becoming a pharmacist in 1931. In 1940, he graduated from Louisiana State University, becoming a political science instructor. During World War II, he served as a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration in Minnesota, and he served as director of the war service program in Minnesota. In 1943, he became a professor of political science at Macalester College, and he became one of the founders of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1944.

Political career
In 1945, he was elected Mayor of Minneapolis, and he became an anti-communist activist in 1947. In 1948, he was elected to the US Senate, and he suggested that the United States should "walk into the sunshine of human rights." From 1949 to 1964, he served in the senate, and he served as Majority Whip from 1961 to 1964. In 1964, he was chosen as Lyndon B. Johnson's running mate over Robert F. Kennedy, and he was sworn into office on 20 January 1964. He was the main author of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fought to create the Peace Corps, and also proposed sending communists to concentration camps. In 1968, he ran for the presidency when Johnson declared that he would not be seeking re-election, losing the election with 191 electoral votes to Republican Party challenger Richard Nixon's 301. His loss was blamed on the anti-Vietnam War protests and the negative public reactions to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and he returned to the senate in 1971. He died of bladder cancer while in office in 1978.